Brahim Tall presents The Choir of Dissonance: The Creation of the Sea (2025)
he/him
22 May–20 June | de Brakke Grond
The Choir of Dissonance: The Creation of the Sea (2025) is an installation that listens as much as it speaks. Whispered voices gather in space, grow louder, from fragile, fragmented utterances into a dense, collective presence. What begins as dispersed recordings in English, French, and Portuguese gradually converges into a resonant choir. Emerging from a fleeting performance and extended through processes of collaboration and layering, the work traces how individual expression can accumulate into shared force, attending to the voice as both vulnerable and powerfl – moving between intimacy and collectivity, and revealing how language, memory, identity, and expression can coalesce into a living, sonic body.
About the artist
Brahim Tall’s practice explores the Black body in relation to media production and its impact on the Black experience. Through artistic research, he examines this relationship and the gazes it has historically produced, attempting to disrupt and transform them by shifting their aesthetics in my work. With this approach, he works across a wide range of media, including film, photography, video installation, audio installation, and performance. His practice is an ongoing process that activates different visual languages addressing the way we read and interpret the Black body in images, while attempting to lift the veil on the machine behind our naturalised interpretation of media and the conflicting biases within our gaze. Tall credits his Belgian-Dutch and Senegalese background to exposing him to a wide range of customs and perspectives from an early age, prompting ongoing questions about his place within Belgian society.
